The 68EC040 is a version of the Motorola 68040 microprocessor intended for embedded controllers. Motorola Inc ( is an American, multinational Fortune 100, Telecommunications company based in Schaumburg Illinois. The Motorola 68040 is a Microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1990. A microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a Central processing unit (CPU on a single Integrated It differs from the 68040 in that it has no FPU or MMU. A floating point unit (FPU is a part of a Computer system specially designed to carry out operations on Floating point numbers A memory management unit ( MMU) sometimes called paged memory management unit ( PMMU) is a Computer hardware component responsible for handling This makes it less expensive and draw less power.
Note: In keeping with general Motorola naming, this CPU is often referred to as the EC40.